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Does anyone have advice or pointers on good documentation on how to convert a system from using the Mbox format to using Maildir? I recently upgraded to Fedora Core 2 from Fedora Core 1 and discovered that UW-IMAP was gone. So I switched over to using Dovecot. So far so good. But I would like to convert my system to start using the Maildir format. How easy is this to accomplish? Can I keep

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Jeroen van Disseldorp wrote: > Package: dovecot-imapd > Version: 0.99.10.4-2 > Severity: normal > > When accessing a maildir with "all folders" instead of "only subscribed > folders", dovecot wrongfully reports its index-files (.imap.*) as mail > folders. When the client (KMail 1.5.2 in my case) checks for email, it > aborts halfway

Hi, folks. I'm testing out RedHat's "Fedora Core 2" release, which has switched from the old WashU imapd to dovecot-0.99.10. Overall, this looks like a really, really good move on their part: it looks like a very sweet little tool without some of the ingrained idiocy of Mark Crispin insisting that every home directory consist of nothing but mbox files and allowing you to use a

All, I'm trying to teach dovecot to use the mbox format for /var/mail/%u and maildir for /home/%u/Mail/ but I'm having quite a hard time. This is Dovecot v1.0.beta3 under OpenBSD 3.9 on sparc64. I've been fiddling with default_mail_env and also tried separate namespaces, but all to no avail. Here's some of the things I tried : default_mail_env =

Hello, just to soothe my paranoia from many years of qpopper usage, which enforces solitary access to a POP mailbox. Only one login per user is possible at the same time and if a session terminates w/o qpopper being properly notified it will remain locked for some time, 30 minutes by default. With dovecot (0.99.10.4) one can login multiple times (using POP, with IMAP of course this comes as

Hi, I was wondering whether anybody has managed to get Dovecot 1.0 to store INBOX as Maildir and folders as mbox. I've tried something like default_mail_env = mbox:/folders/user/mail:INBOX=maildir:/inboxes/maildir/user:INDEX=/indexes/user but it doesn't seem to work (treats INBOX as mbox). I'm hoping to move some INBOXes from mbox on local disk to Maildir on nicely-mirrored NetApp

Hi, compiled perfectly, so the patch of course work ;), but seems that I had the conf a bit broken, because he doesn't read the new messages in /var/mail/user, does the line: #default_mail_env = mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/mail/username look good?, I also tryed with %h instead of username, the rest of the conf is pretty standard, I can create folders and so on. Regards Alvaro

I haven't seen any info on this so I thought I'd ask. Is there support for shared IMAP folders? Quite a few people at work subscribe to the Linux Kernel Mailing List. I thought it would make more sense if there could be a shared LKML folder that they all could use. This would save disk space. Is this posssible? If so how? I am also looking into the idea of doing a local newsgroup of

I have trouble to get my INBOX-mbox to work properly. I have set the default_mail_env, to this.. "default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" Since my users are using thier home-dirs to store folders and old mails, and recieving them in /var/mail/username. But when logging in i get this.. Sep 9 12:25:23 angelica imap-login: Login: username [217.151.192.103] Sep 9

I'm trying to set up dovecot and I'm running into a few problems. I just want to use IMAP for one user, everyone else gets POP3 from the existing (working server). $MAIL is set to /var/spool/mail/gavin_imap In my /var/spool/mail directory I now have a problem: -rw------- 1 gavin_im mail 1392 Oct 14 22:28 gavin_imap -rw------- 1 gavin_im popusers 0 Oct 14 21:54

Hi We have an mailserver running RedHat Linux 9.0 with UW-IMAP (imap-2001a- 18.progeny.1.src.rpm), we have user mailboxes in /var/spool/mail/username using the default mbox storage method. Some users have home directories and some dont. They only connect through the POP3 server, not IMAP. We are now migrating both hardware and software to an new server running RHEL 4, i have copied all

I now have default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail:INBOX=:/var/spool/mail/%u I now getting: Apr 26 15:55:32 jedrik imap(mclay): open() failed with mbox file : No such file or directory I tracked down where the error message is getting generated and added some more printing: In mbox-index.c I added: int mbox_set_syscall_error(struct mail_index *index, const char *function) { i_assert(function !=

Hi! I need set to dovecot non standart mbox path. For example, /var/service/mail/%u. How I can do it? I see default_mail_env parameter, but I don't undestend how it used. Thanks!

Hi, Been reading a lot of posts about dovecot configuration, but can't really figure out if what I want is even possible or how to achieve this. My setup is simple : One linux machine that collects mail from my provider and sorts them for me and my wife, where my email is stored in Maildir format in ~myuser/.maildir and my wife's email is stored in mbox format in

HI, I recently upgraded an wu-imap server to dovecot dovecot-0.99.11-1.FC3.3 without big trouble (the subscribed mailboxes had to be added by hand...) But today users told me that there where some problems; e.g. a user tried to delete a message and got this error: Oct 19 09:43:13 mail imap(jmeinken): File isn't in mbox format: /home/mitarbeiter/jmeinken//Trash This didn't happen

Hello, The Wiki indicates that Dovecot can do either mbox or Maildir on a per-user basis: default_mail_env can be overridden in userdb for each user. This works with userdbs supporting the "mail" attribute (eg. passwd-file, SQL, LDAP). How exactly does one do this for passwd-file? Thanks, -Jon -- Jon Nathan jon at rupture.net

So is there any possibility of getting it so that the Subversion repository can get the check-in comments from the internal CVS repository? At the moment every log file comment I see in SVN is "Sync". Which doesn't really let me know what has happenned without having to go lock at the actual diff between the two versions. And even then I may not have any idea why the change was

So is there any possibility of getting it so that the Subversion repository can get the check-in comments from the internal CVS repository? At the moment every log file comment I see in SVN is "Sync". Which doesn't really let me know what has happenned without having to go lock at the actual diff between the two versions. And even then I may not have any idea why the change was

I ran into a problem where systems without DNS entries could not connect to the rsync server with the IPV6 patch applied. Here is a fix to the problem. Basically they were checking the list of IP addresses returned by getaddr even if getaddr failed. I just changed it so they only check the list of IP addresses if getaddr succeeds. Any comments on this please email me directly because I do not

Hi all! Ran into a problem and hopefully i can get some help. OK here is my set up: - dovecot-0.99.10.4 + MySQL patch. - Redhat 9 The authentication part works just fine. It gives me the following entry in the log file: imap-login: "Apr 12 22:15:10 "Info: Login: USER at DOMAIN.com [127.0.0.1] But there is a problem with dovecot reading the mbox file (I think). In the error file I